Indian Polity Previous Year Questions (PYQ) with Answers – Page 24

This statement is wrong, because the Gauhati High Court has permanent benches outside Guwahati. The Gauhati High Court at Guwahati is the common High Court for Assam, Nagaland, Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh.

India's first general election was spread over the winter of 1951 and 1952 and is dated 1952, the year the first Lok Sabha and the first set of state legislative assemblies were constituted.

. The American federation is called "an indestructible union of indestructible states", a phrase from the US Supreme Court's judgment in Texas v. White (1869).

The Supreme Court has held the opposite: where the language of the Constitution is ambiguous, the Preamble is a valuable aid to interpreting it.

In A. K. Gopalan vs. State of Madras (1950) the majority rejected 'due process of law' and read Article 21 narrowly, so the statement is wrong.

Under the Rules of Procedure of the Lok Sabha, the Speaker is elected on a date fixed by the President.

The Communist member from Bengal attacked the Constituent Assembly as a body created under the British Cabinet Mission Plan. The Constituent Assembly was set up in 1946 under the Cabinet Mission Plan, and its members were elected indirectly by the provincial assemblies, not by universal adult franchise.

Article 124(3) allows such a person to be appointed a Judge of the Supreme Court.

The Public Accounts Committee is constituted afresh every year, so each member's term is one year. The PAC was first set up in 1921 under the Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms.

The Constitution makes itself supreme, not any one organ; it balances parliamentary sovereignty with judicial review. India took a middle path between the British idea of parliamentary sovereignty and the American idea of judicial supremacy.

Article 156 deals with the term of office of the Governor: clause (1) says that the Governor holds office during the pleasure of the President, clause (2) allows him to resign by writing addressed to the President, and clause (3) fixes his normal term at five years from the date…

The 44th Amendment Act of 1978 removed the right to property from Part III, so it is no longer a fundamental right.

Article 129 makes the Supreme Court a court of record and Article 215 does the same for every High Court, with power to punish for its contempt.

A constitution can set rules and limits, but it cannot guarantee that good people will enter politics. A constitution is the basic set of rules by which a country is governed.

The Constitution does the opposite: Article 18 abolishes titles, so receiving a title is not a Fundamental Right. Article 18 forbids the State from conferring any title other than a military or academic distinction, and bars citizens from accepting a title from a foreign State.

Severability is a doctrine used by courts to interpret laws, not a writ. Under Article 32 the Supreme Court, and under Article 226 the High Courts, can issue five writs: habeas corpus, mandamus, prohibition, certiorari and quo warranto.

It comes from the Directive Principles of State Policy, which no court can enforce. Article 39(a) asks the State to direct its policy towards securing that citizens, men and women equally, have the right to an adequate means of livelihood.

In Lok Sabha and State Assembly elections, the candidate with the most votes in a constituency wins, even without a majority.

The 35th Amendment of 1974 made Sikkim an "associate State" of the Indian Union. Sikkim had been an Indian protectorate under the Chogyal.

The Sixth Schedule, read with Article 244(2), covers the tribal areas of only four States, namely Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura and Mizoram.